Adam Tranter on Twitter: "Some new ideas aren't actually very new at all. Here's US Postmen, British suffragette Lady Florence Norman and a US couple using foldable Autopeds in the 1910s. They
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A (composite) photograph of suffragette Lady Florence Norman suffragette riding an Autoped widely recognised as the very first motor scooter. It was made by the Autoped Company of Long Island City, New
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Images from 1916 show first E-Scooters in action as Suffragettes ride them around London | Daily Mail Online
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Images from 1916 show first E-Scooters in action as Suffragettes ride them around London | Daily Mail Online
Engineering World US - The Autoped, the first motorized scooter and English socialite and political activist Florence Priscilla, Lady Norman, CBE was given this Autoped as a birthday present by her husband,
![WOMENSART on Twitter: "In 1916, Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette in London used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #womensart https://t.co/0IgS1OVn5W" / Twitter WOMENSART on Twitter: "In 1916, Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette in London used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #womensart https://t.co/0IgS1OVn5W" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdtwE3XXYAIQ30l.jpg)
WOMENSART on Twitter: "In 1916, Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette in London used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #womensart https://t.co/0IgS1OVn5W" / Twitter
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Images from 1916 show first E-Scooters in action as Suffragettes ride them around London | Daily Mail Online
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The Motorized Scooter Boom That Hit a Century Before Dockless Scooters | History| Smithsonian Magazine
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Images from 1916 show first E-Scooters in action as Suffragettes ride them around London | Daily Mail Online
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